General
New York Institute of Photography. Complete Course In Professional Photography.
The Great Courses: Fundamentals of Photography.
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida.
Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays.
Susan Sontag, On Photography.
Classic Essays On Photography.
John Whiting, Photography is a Language.
Photography in Print. Writings from 1886 to the Present.
Bryn Campbell, World Photography. 25 Contemporary Masters Write About Their Work, Techniques and Equipment.
Johannes Itten, The Elements of Color.
Ansel Adams, Camera and Lens.
The Camera.
Light and Film.
The Print.
History of Photography
Nancy Newhall, History of Photography.
Aaron Scharf, Pioneers of Photography.
Nancy Newhall, From Adams to Stieglitz. Pioneers of Modern Photography.
Vicki Goldberg, The Power of Photography. How Photographs Changed Our Lives.
Arnold Gassan, A Chronology of Photography. A Critical Survey of the History of Photography as a Medium of Art.
Arthur Booth, William Henry Fox Talbot: Father of Photography.
Helmut and Alison Gernsheim, L. J. M. Daguerre: The History of the Diorama and the Daguerreotype.
Jonathan Green, Camera Work: A Critical Anthology, 1903-1917.
Visual Language and Seeing
Gyorgy Kepes (ed.), Education of Vision.
Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision.
Max Kozloff, Photography & Fascination.
Helmut Gernsheim, New Photo Vision.
Mary Acton, Learning to Look at Paintings
Henry Wolf, Visual Thinking. Methods for Making Images Memorable.
R. Smith Schuneman (ed.), Photographic Communication.
John Berger, Ways of Seeing.
John Berger, The Sense of Sight.
John Berger, About Looking.
John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous.
John Berger and Jean Mohr, Another Way of Telling.
Richard L. Gregory, Eye and Brain. The Psychology of Seeing.
The Moment of Seeing. Minor White at the California School of Fine Arts.
Lionello Venturi, Painting and Painters. How to Look at a Picture.
David Finn, How to Look at Photographs.
Handbook of Perception. Volume V: Seeing.
Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art.
John Szarkowski, The Photographer’s Eye.
Form
Wolfgang Paalen, Form and Sense.
Lens
Sidney F. Ray, Photographic Lens.
Rudolph Kingslake, A History of Photographic Lens.
A. Kraszna-Krausz, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography.
Richard Zakia and Leslie Stroebel, The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography (third edition).
Black-and-White Photography
Minor Whit, Zone Symstem Manual: How to Previsualize Your Picture.
Richard J. Henry, Controls in Black and White Photography.
Portraiture
Margaretta K. Mitchell, Ruth Bernhard. Between Art & Life.
Bill Brandt, Portraits.
Tête à Tête. Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Alfred Eisenstaedt, People.
Gisèle Freund, The Poetry of the Portrait.
Imogen Cunningham: After Ninety.
Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair, The Portraits: A Century of Iconic Images.
Muray’s Celebrity Portraits of the Twenties and Thirties.
Carolyn Kinder Carr, Hans Namuth Portraits.
Kenneth Clark, Feminine Beauty.
Social Comments
Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others.
David Levi Strauss, Between the Eyes. Essays On Photography and Politics.
James D. Horan, Matthew Brady: Historian with a Camera.
Robert Capa, Images of War.
Marc Riboud, The Three Banners of China.
Arthur Rothstein, Words and Pictures.
Arthur Rothstein, Photojournalism.
The Concerned Photographer.
The Concerned Photographer 2.
Great Photographic Essays from Life.
Magnum.
MoMA, The Family Man.
W. Eugene Smith: Master of Photographic Essay.
John Szarkowski (ed.), The Photographer and the American Landscape.
Photography of Performing Arts
Tributes. Celebrating Fifty Years of New York City Ballet.
Adrian Siegel, Concerto for Camera. A Photographic Portrait of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Baron Adolf de Meyer, L’Après-midi d’un Faun. Vaslav Nijinsky. 1912.
Richard Buckle, In Search of Diaghilev.
David Vaughan, Merce Cunningham. Fifty Years.
Alexander Bland, The Nureyev Image.
Keith Money, Anna Pavlova. Her Lif and Art.
Barbara Morgan. Aperture 11:1, 1964
Still-life Photography
Norman Bryson, Looking at the Overlooked. Four Essays On Still Life Painting.
Manipulations and Printing
Jerry Uelsmann, Process and Perception.
Criticism
Lionello Venturi, History of Art Criticism.
F. O. Matthiessen, The Responsibilities of the Critic.
Aperture Magazine, 1952 – present.
Art and Photography
Aaron Scharf, Art and Photography.
Heinrich Schwarz, Art and Photography. Forerunners and Influences.
Liz Wells, Photography. A Critical Introduction.
On Classic Masters
Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, Masters of Photography.
Szarkowski, Ancel Adams at 100.
Ancel Adams, Letters and Images 1916-1884.
Diane Arbus. An Aperture Monograph.
Richard Avedon, An Autobiography.
Ruth Bernhard, The Eternal Body.
Margaret Bourke-White, Portrait of Myself.
The Photographs of Margaret Burke-White.
Vicky Goldberg, Margaret Bourke-White. A Biography.
Imogene Cunningham: Photographs.
Helmut Gernsheim, Julia Margaret Cameron. Her Life and Photographic Work.
Harry Callahan.
Robert Capa.
Robert Capa, Slightly Out of Focus.
Tête à Tête. Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Eisenstaedt: Remembrances.
Alfred Eisenstaedt, Witness To Our Time.
The Eye of Eisenstaedt.
Gilles Mora and John T. Hill, Walker Evans. The Hungry Eye.
Walker Evans. Photographs from the Farm Security Administration 1935-1938.
James R. Mellow, Walker Evans.
Robert Frank, The Americans.
Lee Friedlander Photographs.
Karsh.
Maria Tippett, Portrait in Light and Shadow. The Life of Yousuf Karsh.
Noël Bourcier, Andre Kertesz.
Carole Kismaric, Essay in André Kertész.
André Kertész. The Early Years.
Milton Meltzer, Dorothea Lange. Life Through the Camera.
Dorothea Lange.
Clarence John Laughlin: The Personal Eye.
Annie Leibovitz, Photographs.
Photographs. Annie Leibovitz. 1970-1990.
One Mind’s Eye. The Portraits and Other Photographs of Arnold Newman.
Helmut Newton.
Edward Steichen, A Life in Photography.
Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer.
Sarah Greenough and Juan Hamilton (eds.), Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings.
Mark Haworth-Booth, Essay in Paul Strand.
Edward Weston.
The Daybooks of Edward Weston.
Abe Franjndlich, Lives I’ve Never Lived: A Portrait of Minor White.
Sheryle and John Leekley, Moments. The Pulitzer Prize Photographs.
The Great Life Photographers.